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*Hillary Clinton's climate army
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-climate-team-226930>*
Her swarm of formal and informal energy and environmental advisers
dwarfs Donald Trump's handful of outside experts.
Hillary Clinton has assembled a virtual army of formal and informal
advisers on energy, the environment and climate change — and the
names on the list indicate she fully aims to continue President
Barack Obama's push to green the economy and take on global
warming....The team of nearly 100 informal advisers, who have spent
the past year compiling recommendations on everything from chemical
safety and Everglades restoration to nuclear power and climate
finance, includes holdovers from the Obama administration such as
former White House advisers Carol Browner and Heather
Zichal.....Along with climate change, the campaign is also expected
to make a major general election theme out of environmental justice,
which focuses on the way environmental problems such as dirty air
and water disproportionately affect poor and minority communities.
Campaign officials have been consulting with prominent figures in
the environmental justice movement, including South Carolina state
Rep. Harold Mitchell.....The Clinton campaign's policy bench starts
at the very top with Chairman John Podesta, who was a leading
architect of Obama's second-term climate strategy and remains
involved in developing the campaign's climate and energy agenda.
Podesta is also leading a separate effort aimed at planning for
Clinton's transition that could draw from the energy and climate
policy recommendations. Politico.
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**To Fight Clean Power Plan, Fossil Fuel Companies Paid for Private
Meetings with Republican State Prosecutors
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/07/fight-clean-power-plan-fossil-fuel-companies-paid-private-meetings-republican-state-prosecutors>*
DeSmogBlog Just one week before Republican state attorneys general
asked federal courts to reject the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which
requires states to regulate emissions from electricity generation,
they met privately — for a handsome fee — with energy companies
Murray Energy and Southern Company, which are also suing to halt the
plan’s implementation....The timing of the secret meetings and
financial contributions reveal what appears to be a well-coordinated
effort to hobble the Obama administration’s climate policy agenda...
"I think the thing that is most troubling is it’s not just the fact
that they’re holding these private meetings. It’s not just the fact
that Murray Energy wants to influence the actions of an attorney
general," says Surgey of CMD. "It’s that those corporations are
paying into a fund that is helping to reelect the same elected
officials that they are asking for something from."...A CMD press
release reports that "corporations can pay a premium rate RAGA
membership fee of up to $125,000 for the privilege of holding
private briefings with attorneys general and their staff, as well as
attending the annual meeting."
Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record*Global Warming*
<https://thinkprogress.org/satellites-confirm-global-warming-ce6d636c469f>
ThinkProgress -12 hours ago
Sorry Deniers, Even Satellites Confirm Record*Global Warming*... And
so Ted Cruz and his fellow *climate science*deniers retreated to the
(equally false) "satellites find no warming since 1998" talking
point ...
Amitav Ghosh: '*climate change*is like death, no one wants to talk
about it'
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/08/amitav-ghosh-climate-change-is-like-death-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it>
The Guardian -1 hour ago
Speaking at a literary festival in Bhutan, the Indian novelist
Amitav Ghosh recently predicted that Himalayan regions, for no fault
of their own, will face a catastrophe as*climate change *takes hold.
So chilling was Ghosh that the local paper reported– only half in
jest – that a disturbed audience had to be soothed by a subsequent
talk by Buddhist monks....Ghosh, best known for his historical
novels, has been travelling the world talking about his new book,
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, born out
of a series of lectures at the University of Chicago.*...One of its
central themes is that writers, artists and filmmakers, including
himself, have largely ignored climate change – *"*he great
derangement*"* of the title – simply because it seems too
far-fetched and terrifying....But does it really make a difference
if authors write about climate change? *"*Making a difference isn’t
the point; the point is to examine the meaning of the arts. If we
believe that the arts are meant to look ahead, open doors, then how
is this huge issue of our time, absent from the arts? It’s like
death, no one wants to talk about it,*"* Ghosh said.*"*In 2003, the
European heatwave caused 46,000 deaths,*"* he muses. *"*When the
power goes out in New York, there is a crime wave. When the power
goes out in India, several times a day, no one even notices. It’s
quite possible the middle class will be the most affected, and the
really poor and rich will survive.*"
**
Review shows 25 companies that vowed to back*climate
change*initiatives are funding denier lawmakers
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/7/1567650/-Review-shows-25-companies-that-vowed-to-back-climate-change-initiatives-are-funding-denier-lawmakers>
Daily Kos -6 hours ago
U.S. companies that have expressed the most fervent public support
for President Barack Obama's environmental agenda are also funding
its biggest enemies—the scores of U.S....The review found that 25 of
the 30 companies are funding the campaigns of lawmakers featured on
a "climate deniers" list that was put together by Organizing For
Action, a non-profit created by former Obama campaign aides to
advocate his agenda.
Oceans Protected Us from Worst Effects of*Climate Change*, But They
Can't Take Anymore: Report
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/oceans-protected-us-worst-effects-climate-change-they-cant-take-anymore-report>
Common Dreams (press release) -14 hours ago
The oceans have been shielding us from the worst effects of climate
change, according to "Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale,
effects and consequences" (pdf), by absorbing 93 percent of the
excess CO2 that human industrial activity has emitted into the
atmosphere—and humans have produced so much CO2 that without the
oceans, surface temperatures worldwide would have risen by 36°
Celsius since the 1970s....Instead, thanks to the oceans' capacity
to absorb so much CO2, global temperatures have only risen about
0.5° since the 1970s, according to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...."Without this oceanic buffer,
global temperature rises would have gone much, much speedier,"
Andersen said....However, the massive amount of CO2 absorbed by the
oceans has sent the water temperatures soaring, the report finds,
rapidly depleting the biodiversity of marine and coastal
species—from microbes to whales—and changing weather patterns
worldwide....Oceans protected us from worst effects of climate
change by absorbing most of humans' CO2 emissions, report finds, but
they can't take anymore—and will soon release that CO2 back into the
air..
*"Exxon's Donations and Ties to American Geophysical Union Are Larger
and Deeper Than Previously Recognized,"
<http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1301?t=10&akid=4412.238921.oC8mpk>*/
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/InsideClimate News,/The board of the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) sparked a protest among member scientists when it announced
last month that it would keep accepting money from ExxonMobil amid
new revelations the oil giant misled the public on climate science.
At issue was the company's sponsorship of a $35,000 student
breakfast at its annual conference...What AGU president Margaret
Leinen did not discuss when announcing the decision was Exxon's
other, longtime financial support and close ties to the world's
largest organization of earth scientists....ExxonMobil Exploration
is recognized by AGU as a top donor, and some of that money was
raised by two longstanding AGU members who are Exxon employees:
Carlos Dengo, a former company vice president and a member of AGU's
board of directors, and Exxon scientist Pinar Yilmaz.
http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1301?t=10&akid=4412.238921.oC8mpk
<http://act.climatetruth.org/go/1301?t=9&akid=4412.238921.oC8mpk>
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